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Delta, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, September 4th, 2012
By Austin Ogwuda Asaba—DELTA State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, yesterday, announced the ban of commercial motorcycles otherwise known as Okada in Asaba, the state capital and other major cities, with effect from this month. Uduaghan, who received the new boss of Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, in Delta State, Commander Ada Ajenge, who paid him […]
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Aviation, Headlines
Tuesday, September 4th, 2012
AIR Nigeria has announced the suspension of all its operations -local, regional and international – with effect from Monday, September10, 2012. The suspension, according to the management of the frontline airline, is largely due to staff disloyalty and environmental tension, “which are not conducive for business in the aviation sector.” In a statement yesterday, the […]
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Headlines, Nollywood (Film Industry)
Tuesday, September 4th, 2012
DAYS after we lost our ‘unforgettable’entertainment editor, Ogbonna Amadi, news of another death has hit the entertainment industry and it was fast rising Yoruba actress Seun Ogunlade who was reported dead in the early hours of Monday.Beautiful and talented Seun is said to have been ill for just about three days before the cold hands […]
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Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists
Monday, September 3rd, 2012

Read Part (I) – http://newnigerianpolitics.com/2012/09/03/the-nigerian-challenge-the-future-of-minorities-i-by-dr-leonard-k-shilgba/ A Basil Chianson Annual Lecture at Benue States University, August 25, 2012 By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | Sept. 3, 2012 – Nigeria was not designed to become a nation; she was designed for mundane materialism. Although some efforts were made in 1963 by Nigerian nationalists to […]
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Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists
Monday, September 3rd, 2012

A Basil Chianson Annual Lecture at Benue States University, August 25, 2012 By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | Sept., 3, 2012 – I have been invited to this annual Lecture of the Basil Chianson Foundation to talk on the Nigerian Challenge and the Future of the Minorities. The members of the Board […]
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Articles, Churchill Okonkwo, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Monday, September 3rd, 2012

By Churchill Okonkwo | NNP | Sept., 3, 2012 – Intellectual laziness tends to be harder to spot and much easier to disguise with randomness eclipsed by high degree of entropy in Nigerian system. There is currently a pervasive intellectual laziness in policy formulation and implementation from supposed experts in President Jonathan’s administration. The culture […]
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Anthony A. Kila, Articles, Columnists, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), NNP Columnists, Presidency
Monday, September 3rd, 2012
By Anthony A. Kila | London, UK | Sept. 3, 2012 – Regardless of all the reservations or enthusiasm that a voter might have for his government, we are all bound as citizens to observe that the news that President Goodluck Jonathan has signed a performance contract with his ministers is good news. We are […]
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Articles, Columnists, Ikechukwu Enyiagu, Nnamdi Azikiwe (1963-66), NNP Columnists, Presidency
Monday, September 3rd, 2012

By Ikechukwu Enyiagu | NNP | Sept. 3., 2012 – There was once an old man in a part of Igboland whose activities became the shame of his children, family and the entire town. As old as he was, he did not only indulge in drug abuse, he rallied hopeless and helpless youths to do […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Prince Charles Dickson
Monday, September 3rd, 2012
By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | Sept. 3, 2012 – In recent times the Nigerian polity has continued in its usual stride, with both leadership and the led. Mere cosmetic measures, short termed solutions to long term problems designed with a view to averting stampedes and convulsions. Right from the dawn of the […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi
Monday, September 3rd, 2012

By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | Sept. 3, 2012 – This writer is angry not because there is a problem with Nigeria (apologies to Chinua Achebe), not because we now have a clueless and myopic administration, which according to one of its aides, is the most cursed in the world, not because Boko Haram […]